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Beck vs. Obama: Whose Version of Christianity Is More Mainstream?

By David KnowlesSep 2nd 2010 – 8:47PM

(Sept. 2) -- God is on whose side? Today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs responded to criticism made by television talk show host Glenn Beck, who alleges that President Barack Obama believes in tenets of liberation theology, a social justice movement started in Latin America's Catholic churches in the 1960s in...

Background on liberation theology

Liberation theology is a political movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions.

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